An Australian in China, being the narrative of a quiet journey across China to British Burma

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Title:: An Australian in China, being the narrative of a quiet journey across China to British Burma
Collection:: Southeast Asia Visions
Creator:: Morrison, George Ernest
Date:: 1895
Extent:: 372 600dpi JPEG page images
Publisher:: H. Cox
Publication Place:: London
Format:: Book
Contents:: Front Matter
Chapter I. Introductory -- Mainly about Missionaries and the City of Hankow.
Chapter II. From Ichang to Wanhsien with some account of Chinese Women and the Rapids of the Yangtse Kiang.
Chapter III. The City of Wanhsien and the Journey from Wanhsien to Chungking.
"Chapter IV. The City of Chungking -- The Chinese Customs -- The Famous Monsieur Haas, and a Few Words on the Opium Fallacy."
Chapter V. The Journey from Chungking to Suifu -- Chinese Inns.
Chapter VI. The City of Suifu -- The China Inland Mission with some General Remarks about Missionaries in China.
Chapter VII. Suifu to Chatong; with some remarks on the Province of Yunnan -- Chinese Porters Postal Arrangements and Banks.
"Chapter VIII. The City of Chaotong; with some remarks on its Poverty, Infanticide, Selling Female Children into Slavery, Tortures, and the Chinese Insensibility to Pain."
Chapter IX. Mainly about Chinese Doctors.
Chapter X. The Journey from Chaotong to Tongchuan.
Chapter XI. The City of Tongchuan; with some remarks upon Infanticide.
Chapter XII. Tongchuan to Yunnan City.
Chapter XIII. At Yunnan City.
Chapter XIV. Gold Banks and Telegraphs in Yunnan.
Chapter XV. The French Mission and the Arsenal in Yunnan City.
Chapter XVI. The Journey from Yunnan City to Talifu.
Chapter XVII. The City of Tali -- Prisons -- Poisoning -- Plagues and Missions.
"Chapter XVIII. The Journey from Tali, with some Remarks on the Character of the Cantonese, Chinese Emigrants, Cretins, and Wife-Beating in China."
Chapter XIX. The Mekong and Salween Rivers -- How to Travel in China.
Chapter XX. The City of Tengyueh -- The Celebrated Wuntho Sawbwa -- Shan Soldiers.
"Chapter XXI. The Shan Town of Santa, and Manyuen, the Scene of Consul Margary's Murder."
Chapter XXII. China as a Fighting Power. -- The Kachins. -- And the Last Stage into Bhamo.
"Chapter XXIII. Bhamo, Mandalay, Rangoon, and Calcutta."
Index.

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